trots

noun

Meaning

A supporter of Trotskyism.
Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
Equipment with legs.
Type of equipment.
A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).
Heroin (drug).
An ugly old woman, a hag.
(chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
A brisk journey or progression.
A toddler.
A young animal.
To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
(of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
Diarrhoea/diarrhea.
(with "the") A trotting race meet; harness racing.

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